Healthy Skin Life
by Alyssa Brown, Brooke Wallace
We're here to help you understand what is going on with your skin and how to make it look fantastic! Find solutions for acne, anti-aging and other common skin care concerns on SkinCareSumo.com. And checkout our sponsor SkinCareJunkieReport.com for product discounts and up to the minute beauty trends. Let's get started!
Episodes
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GLP-1's: What the Hell is Happening to my Body
Have you started taking Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, or Zepbound and wondered, "What the hell is happening to my body?" 🤯 You're eating less, feeling full after just a few bites, and maybe experiencing nausea, constipation, strange burps, or other digestive changes. But what's actually happening...
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GLP-1 Side Effects: What’s Normal, What’s Dangerous & When to Get Help
In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we break down the most common GLP-1 side effects, why they happen, and the red flags patients and nurses should know about. We’ll cover dehydration and kidney injury, pancreatitis, gallbladder complications, hypoglycemia, compounded GLP-1 dosing…
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What Nurses Can Learn From Meghan Collins’ Testimony: Charting, Scope & Staying Objective
Podcast Notes & Chapters 👉 Watch the video here on Super Nurse - You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/@SuperNurseComics 00:00 — ICU Nurse Meghan Collins Takes the Stand Imagine being questioned in court about a critically ill patient you cared for years earlier. We introduce Meghan Collins’...
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Chart This, Not That: Nursing Documentation That Can Protect Your License
In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we break down what actually belongs in a nursing note, what should stay out, and how to make your documentation clear, objective, and clinically useful. We’ll cover: Objective charting vs. subjective conclusions Why specific observations matter more…
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GLP-1 Belly Pain - Side Effect or Emergency? What Nurses Should Check First
GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound have become incredibly common—and nurses are increasingly caring for patients who take them. You’ll learn why common GI symptoms deserve a closer look, how vomiting and decreased intake can lead to volume depletion and acute kidney...
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GLP-1 Medications: What Nurses Need to Know
GLP-1 medications are being used for diabetes, weight management, cardiovascular risk reduction, and other expanding indications. But for nurses, knowing the medication name isn’t enough—you need to understand how these drugs affect your patient and what changes should get your attention. 🎥…
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The 4 Types of Dementia Every Nurse Should Know
This episode of The Super Nurse Podcast is created and clinically reviewed by Brooke Wallace, BSN, RN, CCRN, CPTC, drawing on more than 20 years of experience in critical care, organ donation, transplant coordination, and nursing education. Brooke develops the clinical framework, verifies the...
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Psych Med Emergencies: NCLEX Warning Signs Nurses Need to Know
A lot of patients are on psych meds, not just psych patients. They're used for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and anxiety disorders can sometimes cause dangerous reactions that nurses must recognize quickly. Prepare for bedside care and the NCLEX by learning the…
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Schizophrenia Nursing Interventions: What Do You Do First?
You'll learn: How to distinguish positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms using the Three S’s, PA-system analogy, and Five A’s What to say when a patient reports hallucinations or delusions—and why arguing or trying to prove them wrong can destroy trust Which schizophrenia nursing interventions...
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How Nurses Help Patients With Alcohol Withdrawal
Alcohol withdrawal can begin with subtle tremors, sweating, anxiety, and rising vital signs before progressing to seizures or delirium tremens. Learn how the timeline since the patient’s last drink, focused assessment, and early nursing priorities can help you recognize deterioration and respond...
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Signs of Drug Diversion: What Bedside Nurses Should Notice
Drug diversion in nursing rarely begins with an obvious incident—the earliest warnings may be medication discrepancies, unusual wasting patterns, and patients whose pain never improves. Learn how to recognize concerning patterns, protect patients and your license, and respond in a way that can…
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Nursing Podcast for Students & New Nurses: Start Here
Nursing school gives you the foundation, but real nursing requires you to connect that knowledge with current evidence, practical experience, and the needs of the patient in front of you. The Super Nurse Podcast turns complex nursing topics, current research, and clinical best practices into…
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Intoxication vs Withdrawal: What Nurses Do First
This episode explains the differences among intoxication, withdrawal, physical dependence, addiction, and substance use disorder. It then applies those concepts to alcohol, opioids, and stimulants so you can connect vital signs, pupil changes, behavior, timing, and patient history with the right...
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Addiction at the Bedside: Intoxication, Withdrawal, and Pain
You’ll learn: How pupil size, respirations, vital signs, skin findings, and behavior help reveal common toxidromes Why routine urine drug screens may miss fentanyl, synthetic cannabinoids, and other emerging substances How physical dependence differs from addiction—and why undertreated pain must...
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Chemo Safety For Oncology Patients: IV Pump Alarms, Spills & Patient Red Flags
This episode breaks down practical oncology safety at the bedside—from hazardous body fluids and chemotherapy spills to IV pump alarms and treatment complications. You’ll learn how to approach high-risk situations with stronger clinical judgment, troubleshoot alarms systematically, and recognize...
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Cancer Patient Deteriorating: Red Flags Nurses Should Catch
Oncology nursing demands fast clinical judgment when a cancer patient begins to deteriorate. In this episode, nursing students, NCLEX candidates, and new nurses will learn how to recognize febrile neutropenia, tumor lysis syndrome, pancytopenia, chemotherapy side effects, central-line...
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Oncologic Emergencies: Made Simple For Non-Oncology Nurses
You'll learn - Why fever and subtle deterioration in an immunocompromised patient can signal neutropenic sepsis - How bruising, oozing, bleeding, thrombosis, and rapidly changing coagulation results fit the pattern of DIC - Why new or severe back pain with weakness, sensory changes, difficulty...
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Chemo and Radiation: Warning Signs Nurses Need to Catch
You’ll learn: Why chemotherapy affects hair follicles, the GI tract, and bone marrow How anemia, thrombocytopenia, and neutropenia change nursing priorities Why fever in a neutropenic patient demands urgent escalation How nurses help manage nausea, mucositis, fatigue, and bleeding risk Essential...
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Chemotherapy Side Effects and Nursing Care
Chemotherapy side effects make more sense when you understand what these medications do at the cellular level. Learn how to connect the biology of cancer treatment to safer assessments, smarter interventions, and the bedside clues nurses cannot afford to miss. 👉 Watch the video on Super Nurse...
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Cancer Care for Nurses: Treatments, Toxicities, and Red Flags
Cancer care becomes less intimidating when you understand why each treatment produces the complications nurses encounter at the bedside. In this comprehensive oncology nursing review, we connect cancer pathophysiology with practical patient care—from abnormal cell growth and TNM staging to...
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Organ Donation After Brain Death: What ICU Nurses Do Next
What happens at the bedside after brain death—and why does intensive nursing care become even more urgent? This episode follows the journey from the transplant waiting list to organ donation in the ICU. Nursing students and new nurses will learn how organ matching works, why donation…
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Organ Donation: The Bedside Nurse’s Role—What to Do and What Never to Say
Organ Donation: The Bedside Nurse’s Role—What to Do and What Never to Say What is the bedside nurse’s role in organ donation—and when should the nurse call the organ procurement organization? In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we explain what nurses need to know when caring for a…
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Nurse Residency Programs: How New Grad Nurses Choose the Right One—and Spot Red Flags
Nurse Residency Programs: How New Grad Nurses Choose the Right One—and Spot Red Flags Passing the NCLEX proves you are ready to begin nursing—but it does not fully prepare you for the reality of managing complex patients, recognizing subtle deterioration, communicating with providers, and…
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How Nurses Recognize Heart Failure When The Monitor Doesn't
In this episode, we explore how nurses recognize cardiovascular deterioration by looking beyond heart-monitor rhythms and isolated vital signs. The discussion begins with the heart’s basic anatomy, including the coronary arteries, SA node, AV node, valves, and the relationship between electrical...
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What Nurses Do When a Patient Has a MI (Myocardial Infarction)
🚨 Time is muscle. When a coronary artery becomes blocked, every minute without adequate blood flow can mean further damage to the heart. In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we break down exactly what nurses do when a patient is experiencing a myocardial infarction, commonly known as a...
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What Nurses Do When The Kidneys Fail
What happens when a patient’s kidneys suddenly stop working—and what should the nurse do first? In this episode of the Super Nurse Podcast, we break down the critical bedside nursing care required when the kidneys fail. Learn how renal failure causes fluid overload, waste accumulation, dangerous...
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What Alcohol Does to the Liver: Alcoholic Cirrhosis, AST/ALT & Liver Failure Nursing Care
In this episode, we decode alcoholic liver disease and alcoholic cirrhosis through the lens of real bedside nursing care. You’ll learn why AST and ALT are better understood as signs of liver cell injury rather than true liver function, and why alcoholic liver disease often creates the classic AST...
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Fire Alarms vs. The Production Line: The Mechanics of Liver Cirrhosis
What do AST, ALT, albumin, PT, and INR actually tell you about liver cirrhosis? In this Super Nurse podcast episode, Fire Alarms vs. The Production Line: The Mechanics of Liver Cirrhosis, we break down one of the most important nursing concepts in liver failure: AST and ALT are not true liver...
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Legal Nurse Consultant: Breakdown of the LNC Career Path
What happens to your nursing documentation if a patient files a lawsuit years later? 👉 Watch the video @SuperNurseAI In this episode of the Super Nurse Podcast, we break down the powerful and often misunderstood world of the Legal Nurse Consultant, also known as an LNC. If you are a nursing...
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Why Liver Disease Makes Patients Bleed AND Clot
This episode focuses on the liver’s role in coagulation and why liver disease creates such a dangerous clinical paradox. We begin by clarifying the difference between liver injury labs, such as AST and ALT, and true liver function markers, such as albumin and PT/INR. From there, we explore how…
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How Your Liver Heals Itself… Until It Doesn’t: Liver Disease For Nurses
Why can the liver regenerate? Why does jaundice turn the skin and eyes yellow? And what happens when the liver’s amazing ability to repair itself reaches its limit? 👉 Visual Learner? Watch the video https://youtu.be/Y5vAoE8ivck In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we take a deep dive into...
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Liver Failure Nursing Care: Jaundice, Hyperbilirubinemia, Meds & Treatments Explained
In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we break down liver failure symptoms, jaundice, and hyperbilirubinemia from a bedside nursing perspective. Whether you are a nursing student, new nurse, ICU nurse, or preparing for NCLEX, this episode will help you understand what is really happening…
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The “Yellow Patient” Warning Sign Every Nurse Should Understand
Visual Learner? 👉 Watch the video https://youtu.be/Jph5GQic4e4 Jaundice is not the disease — it is the body’s visual alarm bell that bilirubin is backing up somewhere in the system. In this clinical breakdown, we explain how bilirubin is formed from old red blood cells, how the liver conjugates...
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Hepatitis A, B, C, D & E Made Easy: Signs Every New Nurse Should Recognize
Visual Learner? 👉 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Jph5GQic4e4 In this episode of the Super Nurse podcast, we break down Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E in a way that helps nursing students and new nurses connect textbook knowledge to real bedside assessment. You’ll learn how hepatitis affects the...
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Why Newborn Jaundice Can Be More Dangerous Than You Think
In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, created by Brooke Wallace, we break down neonatal jaundice and phototherapy safety in a way that connects textbook nursing concepts to real bedside care. 👉 Watch the video https://youtu.be/BJ-GIKzWdI8 Newborn jaundice is common, but it can quickly…
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Jaundice and Itching Explained: ALP vs AST/ALT in Bile Duct Obstruction
This episode explains jaundice, itching, and bile duct obstruction in plain language for nurses, nursing students, and healthcare learners. Instead of only thinking of the liver as a chemical factory, this episode teaches you to picture the liver as a complex plumbing system where bile must flow...
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The Liver Failure Sign New Nurses Often Miss First
Visual Learner? 👉 Watch the video on YouTube @SuperNurse Liver failure can feel overwhelming because it affects nearly every major body system at once—the brain, kidneys, blood vessels, skin, immune system, and coagulation system. In this episode, we walk through the key signs, labs, and nursing...
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Cirrhosis Isn’t Just a Liver Problem: Bedside Signs of Liver Failure
Cirrhosis is not just a liver problem. Once the liver becomes stiff, scarred, and unable to function normally, the effects show up throughout the entire body — in the brain, kidneys, blood, abdomen, lungs, and vascular system. This episode breaks down how nurses can connect the pathophysiology of...
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Heart Transplant Nursing: How To Care for a Brand New Heart
Step inside the cardiothoracic ICU and experience what it’s really like to care for a fresh heart transplant patient at the bedside. Visual Learner? 👉 Watch the video @SuperNurseAI Interested in Organ Donation and Transplant? Check out Brooke's website CPTCexam.com. In this episode of the Super...
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When A-Fib Turns Dangerous: RVR, Stroke Risk, and Bedside Action
When A-Fib turns dangerous, nurses need to understand more than just the rhythm strip. In this episode, we break down A-Fib with RVR, why rapid rates can crash cardiac output, how blood clots form in the atria, and what bedside actions matter most when a patient becomes unstable. A-Fib is not…
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The Human Heart Explained: From Blocked Arteries to Electrical Chaos
This episode uses a simple car-engine analogy to explain the cardiovascular system: the heart has plumbing, including coronary arteries, valves, and blood flow, and an electrical grid, including the SA node, AV node, and rhythm pathways. A heart attack is explained as a plumbing problem caused by...
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That “Whoosh” in the Chest: Aortic & Mitral Stenosis Explained for Nurses
In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we break down the pathophysiology, assessment findings, heart sounds, and nursing interventions for aortic and mitral valve stenosis in a clear, practical, bedside-focused way. You’ll learn how to move beyond memorizing textbook definitions and start...
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The Silent Killer: Hypertension Explained - 2025 Guidelines, Crisis Signs & Nursing Pharmacology
What if the most dangerous thing happening to your patient is completely silent? Built from the bedside teaching style of Brooke Wallace, this episode helps nursing students, new nurses, and bedside clinicians understand hypertension in a practical, real-world way. We explain what systolic and...
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Time Is Muscle: How Nurses Recognize and Respond to a Heart Attack
Every minute matters during a myocardial infarction. In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we break down what a heart attack really looks like at the bedside and how nurses can recognize, respond, and think one step ahead during a cardiac emergency. Created from the bedside knowledge and...
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How The Heart Actually Works: Heart Failure, MI & Hemodynamics Explained
Key Learning Objectives Understand the basic anatomy of the heart and blood flow pathway Learn the fundamentals of hemodynamics and cardiac output Differentiate preload, afterload, and contractility Identify normal and abnormal heart sounds Connect monitor readings to bedside assessment findings...
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7 Heart Failure Clues Hidden in Plain Sight
Heart failure can be overwhelming for new nurses, especially when patients present with severe shortness of breath, edema, tachycardia, and alarming monitor readings. In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, we break down the bedside assessment and management of acute heart failure, helping…
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MI Symptoms Don’t Always Look Textbook
Don't Miss This! Atypical Signs of MI Visual Learner? Check out the video on Super Nurse on YouTube! Key Takeaways Not all myocardial infarctions present with classic crushing chest pain. Women frequently experience atypical symptoms such as fatigue, nausea, indigestion, and jaw pain. Older…
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5 Life-Threatening Cardiac Rhythms Every Nurse Must Recognize and Treat
👉 Watch the video @SuperNurseAI What you'll learn Understand how the heart's electrical system functions under normal conditions. Learn why symptomatic bradycardia can be dangerous and when atropine and pacing are indicated. Recognize atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response (RVR) and...
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When the Heart Fails: Attack, Arrest, or Failure?
👉 Watch the video @supernurseai Most people think a heart attack, cardiac arrest, and heart failure are the same thing—but they are actually three very different medical emergencies. In this episode of The Super Nurse Podcast, Brooke Wallace, RN, breaks down the critical differences using…
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Why Kids Might Have Seizures From a Fever | Febrile Seizures For Nurses
👉 Watch the video @SuperNurseAI What You'll Learn ✅ Why febrile seizures occur most often between 6 months and 5 years of age ✅ Why the speed of a fever's rise matters more than the temperature itself ✅ Airway and safety priorities during a seizure ✅ Why nothing should ever be placed in a…
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About this show
We're here to help you understand what is going on with your skin and how to make it look fantastic! Find solutions for acne, anti-aging and other common skin care concerns on SkinCareSumo.com. And checkout our sponsor SkinCareJunkieReport.com for product discounts and up to the minute beauty trends. Let's get started!
Hosted by
Alyssa Brown, Brooke Wallace